Sustainability
Water Scarcity: The Growing Global Crisis Explained
Agriculture uses approximately 70 percent of the world's freshwater. Groundwater aquifers that took thousands of years to fill are being depleted faster than rainfall can refill them. Cape Town came within weeks of running out of municipal water in 2018. The United Nations University declared in 2023 that the world has entered an 'era of global water bankruptcy.' And 2 billion people already live in countries experiencing high water stress. This is not a future problem. It is a present one, with known causes, measurable trends, and available but underdeployed solutions.